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Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
Monica is also a certified Enneagram teacher in the Embodiment tradition. She approaches the enneagram through an energetic and somatic lens utilizing embodiment practices to assist in untangling the enneagram pattern. Monica provides enneagram coaching for people who are ready to transcend the pieces of their enneagram type that get in their way.
In her personal time, Monica volunteers for BIPOC Raw, an anti-racism educational organization that wholeheartedly believes in the healing power of empathy. She also enjoys hiking the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, writing a food blog, and traveling around the world.
Website: Cardinal River Counseling
Articles
Warming Up with Secure Attachment: How to Feel the Love in Any Situation
When is the last time you felt that warm, gooey, love feeling? You know the one. It gives you tingles all over, maybe you feel some water in your eyes, or maybe it just feels like your heart is going …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
Honoring Lost Loved Ones During the Holidays
Something about the twinkly lights, early dark nights, and the cooler temperatures makes us want to reflect. The holiday season could really be renamed, yearnings of yesterday because of all the feeli …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
The Surprising Secret to Better Relationships
If you are connected to the outside world, which I think most of us are, then you are probably being inundated with messages about goal setting, new year’s resolutions, and the “new you”. Well, nothin …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
A Therapist’s Confessions: A New Consideration On Your Healing Journey
I have heard it all. “Isn’t that what friends are for?”, “Why would I pay someone to listen to me complain?” “What good is it going to do to dig up the past? I’m fine.” And my personal favorite, “(ins …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
The Benefits of Therapy
I will never forget the moment I decided to become a therapist. After a bout with art history and a laughable stint in the political science/pre-law department, I found myself sitting in an "abnormal …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
Endings: A Spiritual Birthplace
The car is driving away. The phone call has been terminated. Your moving van is packed. You are boarding the plane. You are holding your grandmother’s hands and telling her how she has impacted you be …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
Ancestral Healing: An IFS Approach
I can feel the clear blue water around my calves. I can see the white sand that’s sinking my toes into its body. It’s cradling my stance as I look next to me and I see my grandmother and her mother st …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
The Power of Your Inner Child and the Process of Reparenting
Everywhere you look in my area (the southeastern United States), the 90s are back. The sundresses with little flowers on them, chunky white tennis shoes, and even cartoon nostalgia printed on sweatshi …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
Why Traveling is Good for Your Mental Health
“Be a traveler, not a tourist” - Anthony BourdainLately, I've been considering getting these words tattooed on my body somewhere. I think about them all the time. This one sentence helps me reflect on …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
The Window of Tolerance: Insight Into Nervous System Regulation
Your alarm is blaring at you for the 50th time. You notice that it’s an hour past when you said you would arise. Your heartbeat begins to creep into panic mode. Your palms are sweaty. “I’m going to be …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC
How to Repair Your Relationships
Have you ever had one of those apologies that left you feeling worse than before? Where the person says the words, “I’m sorry” but follows it up with something that negates it. Those apologies that ha …
Monica LeBlanc, MS, LCMHC